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Since we covered people who wanted out of Slashdot last week, I thought we'd look at some people who wanted back in. These users found that living without Slashdot was a lot harder than they thought. Maybe you've just been married and are finding out your wife is less interesting than Slashdot or maybe you were bad and want to make amends. These people found out it's hard to make it without your favorite website. Keep reading to find out what they'll do to get back.

I realize that sometimes it's hard to figure out when you've crossed the line. It just seemed so obvious in this case that I wasn't sure what to write back. The other thing to remember here is that this guys name was a synonym for excrement, joined with a sex act.

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 ******* wrote:
"People have the right to say what they want. If you are going to run a website thats free you have to let me talk about fucking animals if I want. I don't really fuck them but if I did it's none of your business if I want to talk about it. I know I will be marked as a troll I don't care about that. I care about not being able to post more. I don't care if I've been modded down or that my karma is low. I have inner karma not some stupid number you made up. If my inner karma is ok with talking about something bad that I don't do you should be to. Let me post more."

Don't get me wrong I like Slashdot but if you are a newlywed and you want to spend more time here than with your new wife, you married poorly. Maybe if you did some more "working" on your wife, you'd find something much better to do in the dark than read Slashdot.

On Wed, 2 July 2008 ********* wrote:
"I know you're busy but was wondering if you can help me out. I really like reading Slashdot but my new wife hates how much I check it during the day. She says that I should check on her as much but we both know that she doesn't update as much :-). LOL but really she doesn't. I thought I could teach her how cool gadgets and geeks are but she doesn't believe me and won't even try. I'm sitting in the dark down here right now so she won't see me. I've rambled enough what I want to ask of you is that maybe you could post more girl kinda stories. She likes horses and has had them since she was a little girl maybe something about horses. If you can't I understand but would really reallly appreciate it. If you can even mail me some stories you find that she might like just mail me the URL and maybe together we can convert her. I really want to read more and talk to her less. If you could work on her for me I'll be the most loyal reader ever."

This is one of my favorite mails of all time. Getting propositioned to bend the rules at work is the type of thing that is usually reserved for politicians or people working concert security. This lady proved that Valentine's Day can be lonely and there is nothing someone would not do to post to Slashdot.

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 ****** wrote:
"I've been banned because you say I've been bad. How bad would you like me? I have some pictures on ******* my username is ****** If you like what you see let me know maybe we can work something out. I've always had a thing for the smart guys. Just thinking about what we could do is making my face flush and my nipples get hard. I'm going to need to change my panties I think. Maybe I'll let you change them for me. I live in Boston but travel a lot. All I need is a little slashdot love but I'm sure you can give me a lot. I'd like to straddle you and let my motuh wander over your ears, licking them while you tell me how I shouldn't have done what I did. You grab my hair and..."

It goes on for a couple of paragraphs, I'll spare you the details except to mention that the word "enter" was tattooed in a few places that you can probably imagine. To be honest at this point I was hoping I would find an Esc tattoo somewhere. She ends with:

"... I couldn't be more serious. I have a feeling that we can work something out that we both would enjoy."

Just stop. If you don't like it don't read it, that simple. And don't keep saying "it shouldn't be front page", honestly do you know of any other parts of slashdot that are not on the front page by default?

Sorry, dude. She said she likes smart guys. Not guys that take lame joke bait.

Seriously, if you're going to post that, you should, at the very least, and not that it would excuse you, include a disclaimer. A simple "I'll bite,..." or the ol' subject "Because somebody had to say it."

No actually. I know about this trick because a roommate of my brother in college has this as a hobby. He would email people back and forth acting like he was a woman interested in the other party. Then he would send penis pics.

"People have the right to say what they want. If you are going to run a website thats free you have to let me talk about fucking animals if I want. I don't really fuck them but if I did it's none of your business if I want to talk about it. I know I will be marked as a troll I don't care about that. I care about not being able to post more. I don't care if I've been modded down or that my karma is low. I have inner karma not some stupid number you made up. If my inner karma is ok with talking about something bad that I don't do you should be to. Let me post more."

What does Slashdot being free have to do with moderation? Same thing goes for free forums; if the topic is set on hardware, you discuss hardware and not sodomized goats. You're free to express whatever view you have, but since certain rules apply to the commentary system, you must also respect it. Furthermore, they don't forbid you to post unrelated comments. But they do have authority to delete it if you're not playing by the rules.

Those exceptions are unchangeable personal characteristics (or inherently personal beliefs) that may or may not affect how a person actually behaves on a site, so I think it's fair that someone can't say "no niggers" and get away with it.

With the exception of dress, of course, but I'm pretty sure we still see signs that say "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service", n'est-ce pas?

You could, though, ban someone for insulting another person for being straight, or calling a fellow black man a nigger where such language

Seriously, if we really must be subjected to this crap surely to goodness there have at some point been some real genuinely amusing e-mails rather than this rather obvious trollish piss taking we're currently being shown. Honestly, anything rather than this, amusing anecdotes of the editors journey into work, his relationship with his stepmother or the black family who have moved in down the street anything would be better.

One guy wants to talk about screwing animals. Another guy wants more stories about horses. The third person is obsessed with sex...

The simple application of logic suggests that one story could make all three people happy. Is this going to be new slashdot section? Award goes to the slashdotter who comes up with the new section icon.

He hasn't figured out how to translate girl-language... seriously kid - if you want someone with your interests you're pretty much going to have to marry a guy. What you need, is a girl language to guy language translation toolkit! Unfortunately, no one has made one yet. However... Translations exist!... When a girl says, "You always read/. instead of paying attention to me!" what she's really saying is, "I feel like we haven't spent a lot of time together lately, and I miss you." Close the laptop then a

The longer I'm married, the more sneaking around my own house I do. Especially damning is when boxes from Newegg show up at the door. I gotta get those suckers off the porch and into my office quickly before they are spotted.

That first guy exemplifies a very common misconception about free speech, that because you have the right to say what you want (true), you have the right to force other people to provide you a forum for that speech, publish that speech, etc. (false). The principle of free speech says you should have as much right as CmdrTaco to create a Web site to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about, not that you should be able to hijack someone else's.

If McCain had showed up at the DNC and told them they had to give him the floor for an hour to tell everyone why Obama is a lousy candidate, the convention organizers would rightfully tell him, "Your convention is next week, talk about whatever you want there but at this one we have a liberal, pro-Obama message". It's also why spam blocking is not a free speech issue like the spammers try to paint it as. You have the right to say whatever you want about your product, but not the right to force me to receive or read your messages.

It's really just a case of your right to swing your fist ending where the other guy's face begins.

In 2002, Fyodor was the victim of an impersonation attack by a Slashdot user who was posing as a woman. Fyodor sent an email to the fake "woman" in an attempt to solicit further conversation and a possible meeting. When the hoax was revealed, the hoaxer insulted fyodor (I believe the word was "wanker").

Fyodor responded by using information disclosure vulnerabilities in yahoo email to find the originating IP address of the Slashdot prankster (SumDeusExMachine) who was at the time a college student based on the Pacific coast. SDEM was using an open X server for windows, MI/X, with no security enabled. Fyodor quickly scanned SDEM's box, found the open X server, and attached to it, monitoring SDEM's life for nine hours. He took many screen shots of SDEM's machine and posted them to his web site, insecure.org.

A lot of personal information was revealed in these screenshots, including the existence and ip address of a "secret troll irc server", which was running an irc bot capable of tracking and posting new stories. Jamie McCarthy used the information disclosed by Fyodor's attack to log onto this server, discover the new-story-bot, and modify Slashdot to break the troll's new-story-robot.

Please make it stop. I can't decide if it's because it's (a) short, (b) unfunny, or (c) just lame, but make the disagree mail go away. Soon.

Seriously? You don't like these stories, yet when you see them on the front page, you put your dislike aside, click on the link and take the time to post a comment. So, despite your claim, here you are, getting entertainment from the thread. Seems to me that these stories are doing their job...

Please make it stop. I can't decide if it's because it's (a) short, (b) unfunny, or (c) just lame, but stop making comments. Soon.

If it says Idle... don't read it? Why do people complain? Even the FRONT PAGE of slashdot says "Idle is a complete waste of your time, don't go there". This goes to show how many idiots will still post how much they hate something they are reading, even knowing they don't like it BEFORE reading it. What's next, going to a Microsoft forum and saying how much you hate Microsoft?

Because not EVERYONE can see it IS idle. If you use the/. RSS feed you do NOT know if something is "idle" or not.

If/. must persist with this digg-based, lowbrow "idle" crap -- despite a large number of users complaining -- then they should at least remove the titles from the main RSS feed or put "IDLE:" at the beginning of every article title.

Then, those of us who do not wish to read this shit can avoid it. That seems fair, does it not?